Middle school teacher kept her "Teacher's Promise" by taking butterfly peace quilt around the world to gather 1,000,000 Visions of Peace Postcards in one year. Read about the experience.
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Peacemakers, you are invited to come and meet the quilt on the PRIME MERIDIAN in Greenwich, England. Be at the observatory on the hill at 2:00 P.M. on September 11.
The greeting/meeting will be short as we all step on the imaginary line together. This will take a small amount of your time but will be memorable for us all.
If you can put this on You-Tube, do. Bring a camera. If you want to bring some postcards for peace for Oprah, see November 11th entry in the archives for instructions. Make the cards to Oprah larger...more like 4 by 6 inches. Cards from Somerset are being hand delivered for the occasion, for example. I'll bring some blanks just in case you forget.
Are there Quaker peace groups in the area? Just come if you are a person of peace and action. Would you like to be there but can't but know someone else who can? Spread the word.
Look for the mini quilt and somebody who looks like me. The quilt's message of kids inspiring others with their varied visions of peace will spread at its 49th stop.
The journey is about over and others can take over. Where will the quilt find a home? Suggestions? I have kept my teacher's promise.
U.S. Nobel Laureate Peace Educator of the Year,
University of Oregon English Methods Teacher, OSU Adjunct Instructor, Veteran Middle School Teacher, Civic and Church Workshop Leader, One of Five Funniest People in Eugene, Humorist, Educational Consultant, One-woman Show: Eleanor Roosevelt, fledgling peacemaker for one year.
2009-2010 GOAL/TEACHER'S PROMISE: I will encourage anyone who will listen to write a peace postcard to Oprah Winfrey by displaying the Butterfly Quilt and telling stories of children's inspiring peace visions. I will ask people to join with Shasta Middle Schoolers in Eugene, Oregon who believe that 1,000,000 visions-of-peace postcards stuffed into a snail-mail post office box could change the world...simply by their sheer abundance of postive thoughts...and subsequent change-producing actions.
Click blog entry for November 11, 2009 below for easy directions on how to add your dream for world peace.
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